Buy a large cookie sheet from the dollar store, don’t use your bride’s. Put your wet & dry on the cookie sheet or loose silicon carbide on the sheet with water, (Loose Silicon Carbide is faster, Gotgrit.com.) Put the sheet on a flat surface, a flat piece of concrete will work but a large marble or granite tile works better as you can get off your knees.

The sheet will contain the mess, I use my AC condenser it is a good height that allows me to apply lots of pressure and is just out the shop door. Use lots of water and a progression, lapping away the previous scratch pattern. Turn your stone frequently & use a sharpie to mark a grid, pencil will come off on the first pass. If you use a progression it will go much quicker, make large jumps and it will cost you time and muscle.

Go as high a grit as possible ending with 2k W/D, then move to stones. Your honing progression 3, 5,8K and finish with a hard Ark with water and Smiths Honing Oil. Then hone a couple of kitchen knives with pressure until you feel the stones smooth out.
Your finished stone will feel like glass with a knife on it but you will feel the grit. It should not feel bumpy. It will take a bunch of laps at least 2-300 pressure laps.

The good thing is you only have to lap it once. Finishing a razor will take a lot of laps, experiment with pressure and use Smith’s Oil with water, 2-3 drops on a wet stone, keep the stone wet.